The point is - when even a communist paper mentions something like that, it has to be taken notice of. There were lots of things under the NDA (not "B" alone) that could be called "progress", unlike anything like it under the UPA, read gandhi family. All congress has done in one year was - negate everything that NDA did in their tenure and carry on with the economic policies, including the divestment they cried foul about.
